Jake Kouns

CISO, Risk Based Security

Jake Kouns is the CISO for Risk Based Security and oversees the operations of the Open Sourced Vulnerability Database (OSVDB.org). Kouns has presented at many well-known security conferences, including RSA, Black Hat, DEF CON, CISO Executive Summit, CanSecWest, SOURCE, FIRST and SyScan. He is the Co-Author of the books Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments (Wiley, 2010) and The Chief Information Security Officer (IT Governance, 2011). He holds both a bachelor of business administration and a master of business administration, with a concentration in information security from James Madison University. In addition, he holds a number of certifications including ISC2’s CISSP, and ISACA’s CISM, CISA and CGEIT.

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